On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 04:44:47PM +0000, Tamar Christina wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 04:10:44PM +0000, Tamar Christina wrote: > > > The majority of the targets turn on -pedantic > > > > I'm not sure what exactly you mean here? > > > > And yes, if someone turned on -pedantic and you want it off, you need to > > turn it off; these warnings are exactly what the option is meant for. > > Well, the error is specifically saying _Float16 is not ISO C. Which is fair but it also gives the impression it is part of *some* C standard. > However looking at the implementation the Warning/Error is emitted regardless of what C standard or gnu extension you use. > > If that is the intended effect then so be it, I'll happy switch off -pedantic. However I found the error quite misleading. > Essentially I was after if there was a way to keep pedantic and still use _Float16. But the answer to that seems to be no. You can say __extension__ _Float16 (ignore the warnings in the manual saying this is only for system headers; the GCC testsuite is special enough ;-) ) Segher
